Last name: FAIRHURST
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FAIRHURST : This last name is indexed 26,701 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FAIRHURST : English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from a hamlet near Parbold not far from Wigan Lancashire or from Fair Hurst in Bradfield Yorkshire. So named from Old English fæger ‘beautiful’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
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